Tradewind Airport
TDW · KTDW · Amarillo, Texas · Randall County · map
Tradewind Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southeast of Amarillo, Texas, 3,648 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 5,098 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TDW · ICAO KTDW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 3,648 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1963
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 5,098 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 3,000 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 50 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 290 ft, tree 30 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 35: threshold displaced 289 ft, trees 30 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 05: fence 4 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 23: right-hand traffic pattern, pole 23 ft high 854 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.4 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.5 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) | 121.15 | |
| Tdw and aWOS-AV | 118.475 | |
| Amarillo and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.85 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 806-350-7407.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Amarillo from the FAA register
338 aircraft are registered to owners in Amarillo, Texas: 218 piston singles, 43 business jets, 26 turboprops, 17 piston twins, 17 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 3 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 sunset to sunrise preset low. To incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 17, 35; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- 4 feet fence 0 feet dstc, 99 feet R.
- 4 feet fence 24 feet dstc; 14 feet road 43 feet dstc, 250 L/R.
- 6 feet fence 94 feet dstc, 60 feet L.
- 4 feet fence 0 feet dstc; 15 feet road, 47 feet dstc.
- Approach slope 11:1 at displaced threshold ovr 40 feet pole, 456 feet dstc, 270 feet L.
- Approach slope 0:1 at displaced threshold ovr 4 feet fence 189 left.
- 35 feet power line 440 feet south of helipad; 35 feet power line, marked 157 feet west; 30 feet light pole 171 feet east, 25 feet lighted wind sock 96 feet west.
- Runway 5/23 no markings.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.